A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind.

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

Inaction counted as a choice.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.